Federal judge finds Pentagon in contempt for failing to record Guantanamo testimony
A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday found the US Department of Defense (DOD) in contempt for failing to videotape the testimony of Guantanamo Bay [JURIST...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday that Kuwaiti Guantanamo Bay detainee Fouad Al Rabiah has been transferred to the control of the Kuwaiti government. Al Rabiah, a Kuwaiti national, had...
More than 350 Taliban inmates began a hunger strike on Sunday at the Sarposa prison in Kandahar province in Afghanistan. The protest is in response to the allegedly poor...
PITTSBURGH: Former Pakistan President Musharraf Explains "The World As I See It"
Pakistani officials announced last week that murder charges had been filed earlier this month against the nation's former president, Pervez Musharraf, who is now on a speaking tour in the US and the UK. Andrew Gilmore, Pitt Law '10, attended...
Run-off elections pose ironic threat to Afghan democratic experiment
Khalid Sekander : "Mr. Barakzai resigned from the Electoral Complaint Commission (ECC) because he views foreign interference as a negative consequence to the Afghan democratic experiment. Meanwhile, Peter Galbraith, former deputy...
Changes to Military Commissions Act not enough to fix flawed system
Michelle McCluer : "Congress appears ready to enact changes to the 2006 Military Commissions Act . After the opening days of the Obama Administration, it feels strange to be writing about the future of...
Guantanamo detainee al Mutairi's release a welcome blow to government detention power
Gabor Rona : "On October 9, the Department of Justice announced the transfer of Guantanamo detainee Khalid Abdullah Mishal al Mutairi, to his home state, Kuwait. "On July 29, 2009, a federal court ruled that...
Afghanistan official resigns from UN-backed electoral commission
One of the two Afghans on the UN-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) resigned on Monday, citing "foreign interference." The panel is tasked with investigating the allegations of fraud surrounding the disputed August presidential elections ....
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that Kuwaiti Guantanamo Bay detainee Khaled Al-Mutairi has been returned to his home country . The US government alleged that Al-Mutairi had fought against American...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, a legal adviser with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague and co-founder and Associate Editor of Global Brief, Canada's first international affairs magazine, says that in order for the ICC to...
